Now comes the mystery.
-- Henry Ward Beecher, dying words, March 8, 1887 The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and
ethical infants.
-- General Omar Bradley The gods too are fond of a joke.
-- Aristotle Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.
- Elbert Hubbard Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken Karlino Eighty percent of married men cheat in America. The rest cheat in Europe.
-- Jackie Mason "It is awfully easy to be hard-boiled about everything in the daytime, but at night it is another thing." (Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises) The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything. Except what is worth knowing.
Journalism, conscious of this, and having tradesman-like habits, supplies their demands.
-- Oscar Wilde Karlino
Value your words. Each one may be the last.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not a poet
enough to call forth its riches; for to the creator there is no poverty and no poor indifferent p The best defense is a good offense.
-- Anonymous Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson "To introduce something altogether new would mean to begin all over, to become ignorant again, and to run the old, old risk of failing to learn." (Isaac Asimov) Karlino "Those who feel certainty are stupid and those with any imagination or understanding are filled with doubt and indecision." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door
and just visit now and then.
-- Katharine Hepburn How could they tell?
-- Dorothy Parker, upon hearing that President Coolidge had died Karlino
I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than
knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
-- Albert Einstein Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot.
-- Anonymous "Video games are bad for you? That's what they said about rock 'n roll." (Shigeru Miyamoto, game designer for Nintendo) It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and
superior impartiality.
-- Arnold Bennett When he first ran for office, he appealed to the voters: "I never stole anything in my life. All I ask
is a chance."
-- Anon. Karlino Marriage is like a box of chocolates. You have to squeeze a few bottoms to make sure you like
what you are getting.
-- Anonymous The only one of your children who does not grow up and move away is your husband. It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember.
-- Eugene McCarthy Karlino
I am going to put myself to sleep now for a bit longer than usual. Call the time Eternity." (Jerzy Kosinski, Polish novelist, from his suicide note) If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance.
- George Bernard Shaw "Paper should be edible, nutritious. Inks used for printing or writing should have delicious flavors. Magazines or newspapers read at breakfast should be eaten for lunch. Instead of throwing one's mai Football incorporates the two worst elements of American society: violence punctuated by
committee meetings.
-- George F. Will, journalist, political commentator, 1994 My wife submits and I obey; she always lets me have her way. Karlino University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
-- Henry Kissinger Always talk to your wife while you're making love... if there's a phone handy. To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
-- Oscar Wilde Karlino
This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold
of a hammer.
-- Will Rogers If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.
-- Albert Einstein Journalism is merely history's first draft.
-- Geoffrey C. Ward You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.
-- John Ciardi "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) Karlino Conceit causes more conversation than wit.
-- LaRouchefoucauld That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the
lessons that history has to teach.
-- Aldous Huxley No matter who you vote for, the Government always gets in.
-- Anon. Karlino
That government is best which governs least.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience, 1849 I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
-- Thomas Edison "Of all mankind the great poet is the equable man." (Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, 1855) A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
Robert Frost (1874-1963) Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.
-- Mark Twain Karlino "Every Man and every Woman is a Star." (Aleister Crowley) Sir Francis Drake circumsized the world with a 100-foot clipper.
-- Unknown history student Diplomacy is the art of saying "Nice doggie" until you can find a rock.
-- Wynn Catlin, also attributed to Will Rogers Karlino
In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience.
- W.B. Prescott "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) Honor's a good brooch to wear in a man's hat at all times.
-- Jonson, Ben I am not young enough to know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde Karlino "Self-confidence is the first requisite for achieving great things." (Samuel Johnson) Honor the ocean of love.
-- George de Benneville "Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing." (Oscar Wilde) Karlino
I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the
advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults of the first.
-- Benjamin Franklin We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified.
-- Aesop Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is blissfully
ignorant.
--John Simon "What is tolerance? -- it is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly -- that is the first law of nature." (Francois Marie Ar Cricket is best described as organised loafing.
-- Anonymous British Radio Broadcaster, 1996 Karlino We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.
-- G. K. Chesterton We trained hard - but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we were
reorganized. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing,
and It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.
- Aristotle Karlino
It is a product of Einstein's genius -- taking a commonplace observation, combining it with some
simple imaginary experiments, and arriving at a revolutionary conclusion.
-- Clifford M. Wills, 1986 "You are rewarding a teacher poorly if you remain always a pupil." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) And in the end the love you take is equal to the love you make.
-- The Beatles, The last lyric of their last song It is not necessary that whilst I live I live happily; but it is necessary that so long as I live I should
live honourably.
-- Kant, Immanuel For I am a bear of very little brain and long words bother me.
-- Winnie the Pooh, character from author A. A. Milne Karlino In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience.
- W.B. Prescott Why bother with marriage? Just find a woman you hate and buy her a house. If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.
- Carl Sagan Karlino
This is the fourth?
-- Thomas Jefferson, dying words I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never
be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me.
-- Abraham Lincoln, in a letter to We have children because we want immortality and this is the most reliable way of getting it.
-- Woodrow Wyatt Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.
-- Bill Moyers A dollar saved is a quarter earned.
-- John Ciardi Karlino I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it by not dying!
-- Woody Allen A clever man commits no minor blunders.
- Goethe I would have made a good Pope.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President Karlino
Never judge someone by who he's in love with; judge him by his friends. People fall in love with
the most appalling people. Take a cool, appraising glance at his pals.
-- Cynthia Heimel Jake liked his women the way he liked his kiwi fruit: sweet yet tart, firm-fleshed yet yielding to the
touch, and covered with short brown fuzzy hair.
-- Jonathan S. Haas Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more
experiments you make the better. What if they are a little course, and you may get your coat
soiled or torn? "College professors are the people who can't hack it in the real world." (William Thomas) "Hold a true friend with both your hands." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Karlino "Never frighten a little man. He'll kill you." (Robert A. Heinlein) Conceit causes more conversation than wit.
-- LaRouchefoucauld "I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower."
"Oh yeah, well I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower TWICE!"
-- Ken Kesey from "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" Karlino
